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There has also been a drive-in cinema at the city’s airport, which has not been used for some time, where people could gather from their cars to watch movies projected on a giant screen. Vilnius will soon ban cars from driving on most of the streets in its old town to provide more space for pedestrians.
“We plan this for next year,” Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius told me about this plan. However, after the country introduced quarantine and given the high demand for outdoor space, he said it seemed “natural” to speed up the project.
Vilnius is just one example of many. From assigning more streets to pedestrians just to change the purpose of public spaces around the world, cities around the world have had to reorganize to meet the needs of their residents during a pandemic. However, with the mitigation of quarantine, the legacy of the coronavirus and the changes it induces in urban spaces remain unclear. Will this pandemic, like its predecessors, inspire new urban planning projects? Or will it deter people in cities for a long time?
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